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id | species | tribe | source | pageno | use_category | use_subcategory | notes | rawsource |
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6068 | 422 | 289 | 70 | 19 | 2 | 42 | Leaves used to keep a newborn baby's navel from becoming infected. A large snail's body was taken from the shell, smashed and put inside a leaf. The preparation was steamed and then held over the umbilical cord with twine. The umbilical cord would fall off and the hole would heal. | Baker, Marc A., 1981, The Ethnobotany of the Yurok, Tolowa and Karok Indians of Northwest California, Humboldt State University, M.A. Thesis, page 19 |